Sir J. C. Bose's diode detector received Marconi's first transatlantic wireless signal of December 1901 (The "Italian Navy coherer" scandal revisited)

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 259-285

  Bondyopadhyay, Probir K ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection of first transatlantic wireless signal; Italian Navy coherer; Marconi's 1901 transatlantic wireless experiment; Mercury coherer with a telephone; Origin of the Italian Navy coherer; Self restoring coherer; Semiconductor diode detector

Indexed keywords

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; TELEPHONE;

ITALIAN NAVY COHERER; MERCURY COHERER; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODE DETECTOR; WIRELESS DETECTION DEVICE;

DETECTOR CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031677607     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.658778     Document Type: Article

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